Seek not to pursue the easy way. If you do you will discover that your life will be hard.


Life is not always something to be deliberately pursued, for life “happens.” No, it is our task to find meaning and purpose in it.


If the miseries of life make you an atheist, perhaps it is because God is trying to get your attention.


The biggest illusion we habitually believe in is that social peace can be legislated. Social peace and international harmony will never be achieved unless individuals stop engaging in civil war with themselves.


I see it happen every four years. The politicians pompously proclaim that if we just vote for them our problems will all be over. And the majority of the voting public votes for whoever is most charismatic and clever, and tells the most lies.


Don’t you get tired of voting for the lesser of two evils?


As long as man continues to be man he will inevitably face crucial problems.


No thinking person will doubt that social conditions determine our individual responses, and that unfair economic circumstances create dilemmas which not only sorely taxes the human spirit and cause incredible personal suffering and aggregate miseries. However, should we not view the whole from a higher vantage point and learn to handle our neuroses with greater finesse and manage our psychic needs with greater artistry?


It is not so much what happens to us that counts as much as what happens in us.


Somehow, in some way, it is vitally incumbent upon us to stop this misery we perpetuate upon ourselves. Why do we hate ourselves, and others? Why do we so often become afraid and can’t figure out why we do? Why do we lose faith, in ourselves, in our friends, in life, and in God? The answer is so simple; it escapes us because we search for answers that are so complex. We need to reach down deep into the labyrinths of our being and change it so that love can permanently abide there. Not until then will you have peace of mind. Oh, you say, its easier said than done. Yes it is, but the secret is, it can be done, and you can do it. The question is; will you do it?


Maybe your prayers bounce off the ceiling, seem unanswered, and you conclude from this that God is not there. Perhaps it is because you are praying for the wrong things, which if answered as if God were Santa Claus, would be detrimental to you. Perhaps you pray with words rather than with soul and though you may be impressed with your eloquence, God is impressed with a broken heart and a contrite spirit.